Myrmecophytes (/mərˈmɛkəfaɪt/; literally "ant-plant") are plants that live in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants. There are over 100 different...
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species of epiphytic fern, native to tropical South America. It is a myrmecophyte, producing domatia in its rhizome which ants live. "Microgramma megalophylla...
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plants and trees, such as thorns or branches; these hosts are known as myrmecophytes. Tetraponera species are closely related to the New World genus of ants...
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the African mahogany, afzelia, lenke, lengue, apa, or doussi, is a Myrmecophyte tree species in the family Fabaceae. It occurs in Benin, Burkina Faso...
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Southeast Asia and is considered critically endangered in Singapore. It is a myrmecophyte as ants live in its tuber, also known as a caudex, and pollinate its...
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mutualistic relationship with stingless shelter ants, which makes it a myrmecophyte. The ant species associated with L. sinuosa belong within the genera...
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gut; others have hooks that enable them to attach to a mammal's fur. Myrmecophytes are plants that have coevolved with ants. The plant provides a home...
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M. (May 2006). "Co-existence of ants and an arboreal earthworm in a myrmecophyte of the Indian Western Ghats: anti-predation effect of the earthworm mucus"...
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Duroia hirsuta is a myrmecophyte tree species from the Amazon Forest. It is one of some 37 species of Duroia, which are shrubs or canopy trees in the family...
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pollinating flowers. For example, the orchid Leporella fimbriata is a myrmecophyte which can only be pollinated by the winged male ant M. urens. Pollination...
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rhizome forms hollow spaces that act shelter for ants, making this a myrmecophyte, similar to others in this genus. "Lecanopteris carnosa". Plants of the...
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Pseudomyrmex spinicola is a species of red myrmecophyte-inhabiting neotropical ants which are found only in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. They live in the...
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including the Leguminosae, Euphorbiaceae, and Orchidaceae. In general, myrmecophytes (or ant plants) usually provide some form of shelter and food in exchange...
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Vachellia cornigera (category Myrmecophytes)
known as bullhorn acacia (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn tree and myrmecophyte native to Mexico and Central America. The common name of "bullhorn" refers...
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utilise rhizobia (nitrogen fixing bacteria) in their root nodules. Myrmecophytes, including Myrmecodia spp. and Hydnophytum spp., are tree species that...
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8 in) in diameter. This rhizome forms a shelter for ants, making this a myrmecophyte, though unlike others of its genus the rhizome is flattened and doesn't...
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Triplaris americana (category Myrmecophytes)
range, including Hawaii and southern Africa. This species of tree is a myrmecophyte and it has a mutualistic relationship with ants, including Pseudomyrmex...
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assassin among predators: the relationship between plant-ants, their host myrmecophytes and the Reduviidae Zelus annulosus". PLoS ONE. 5 (10): e13110. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...
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Piper cenocladum (category Myrmecophytes)
a member of the same genus as kava, betel, and black pepper. It is a myrmecophyte, a plant that lives in ecological mutualism with ants. This plant and...
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Urtica (80 species), and Cecropia (75 species). Cecropia contains many myrmecophytes. Urticaceae species can be found worldwide, apart from the polar regions...
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its host myrmecophyte Barteria fistulosa (Passifloraceae) through aggressiveness and predation: HOW A PLANT ANT PROTECTS ITS HOST MYRMECOPHYTE". Biological...
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food, but many herbivores avoid these plants; most Cecropia spp. are myrmecophytes, housing dolichoderine ants of the genus Azteca, which vigorously defend...
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phosphatase into its tanks. Another species, Brocchinia acuminata, is ant-fed myrmecophyte, apparently depending in part on nutrients and dead nestmates dropping...
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Myrmecodia tuberosa (category Myrmecophytes)
Myrmecodia tuberosa young plant Janzen, Daniel H. (1974). "Epiphytic Myrmecophytes in Sarawak: Mutualism Through the Feeding of Plants by Ants". Biotropica...
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own herbicide, they kill off all the plants in an area except for the myrmecophytes, or ant-plants, in which they reside. M. schumanni live in large clearings...
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Piper fimbriulatum (category Myrmecophytes)
Piper fimbriulatum is a species of plant in the family Piperaceae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama. It is threatened by habitat loss. Mitré...
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Dischidia (category Myrmecophytes)
Dischidia is a genus of plants in the “dog-bane” family Apocynaceae, collectively known as the “milkweeds” (true perennial milkweeds in the Apocynaceae...
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Borges (2006). "Co-existence of ants and an arboreal earthworm in a myrmecophyte of the Indian Western Ghats: anti-predation effect of the earthworm mucus"...
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rainforest that resides in the undergrowth. It is also an example of a myrmecophyte, because it contains ant-domatia, leaf pouches and hollow chambers where...
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Domatium (category Myrmecophytes)
Tetraponera make their nests. Plants that provide myrmecodomatia are called myrmecophytes. The variety of the plants that provide myrmecodomatia, and the ranges...
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